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Unhealthy concepts of weight loss make a voice that has touched the world stop prematurely and sigh endlessly.
<h1>1 Excessive weight loss, not repeated yesterday</h1>
When I was young
I'd listen to the radio
Waiting for my favorite songs
……
This is enough to represent the melody of an era.
On February 4, 1983, due to heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa, Carpenter's 32-year-old lead singer Karen Carpenter died suddenly at home.
The voice that once moved the world has forever become a memory.
Formal test reports said she died of anorexia and emetine cardiotoxicity caused by taking the Tulgen preparation and anti-hyperthyroid drugs (ipecac and Synthroid).
And the bane of all this is dieting and weight loss.
Born in Connecticut, usa, the musical genius Carpenter siblings, formed carpenter band in 1965.
In 1969, they became famous with a song "close to you", and then they became out of control, successively launching "yesterday once more", "top of the world" and other golden songs that were sung around the world, becoming world-renowned musicians.
To what extent has Carpenter become popular?
Even today, half a century later, people who have never listened to European and American music can hum at least two English songs: Carpenter's "Yesterday's Reappearance" and Celine Dion's "My Heart Is Eternal.".
However, along with the success of his career, Karen Carpenter's health problems also became more serious.
Karen's way of losing weight is extreme, often dieting heavily, not eating for a few days, then overeating, and then taking laxatives. When her mother found out that Karen was taking laxatives, she had been taking them for a long time.
This extreme method of weight loss gradually evolved into anorexia nervosa and eventually led to her death.
Karen, who is desperate to lose weight, is actually not fat. This has also attracted criticism from many people, saying that she is "excessively vain" and "does not know how to cherish health" and so on.
However, is it as simple as "vanity"?
<h1>2 Singing the red delicacy "jambalaya", he himself suffers from anorexia</h1>
jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
There are assorted vegetables, crayfish pie, okra with sliced meat.
'For tonight I'm gonna see my cherami-o!
Because tonight I will see my lover!
"Jambalaya", this is a lesser-known American country ballad, if you listen to it, it will not be unfamiliar.
Yes, it is the original version of Zhao Wei's "Little Wrongdoer".
After Carpenter's cover, the melody instantly became a household name.
For a time, people all over the world knew that at the mouth of the beautiful Mississippi River, there is a delicacy called "jambalaya", which is added with crayfish, okra and meat slices, and must be enjoyed with your lover on a beautiful night.
To this day, finding a small restaurant, listening to Karen's songs, and eating "jambalaya" is still one of the must-dos for a trip to New Orleans.
Two years after the song's release, the band took a short vacation to cancel their tour in the UK and Japan due to Karen's poor physical condition, which was the beginning of her anorexia.
Why does Karen Carpenter, who loves food and sings about food, get anorexia?
It is said that at the age of 17, Karen followed the doctor's advice and used the "Schdeumann Weight Loss Method" to lose 20-25 pounds.
As for what exactly is the "Schdeumann weight reduction method"? The captain looked it up for a long time and didn't find it. So it can only be guessed: this is likely to be a special (and possibly already extreme) dietary regimen.
If so, then this "successful" weight loss experience is likely to leave Karen with an unobjective cognition in his heart: "If you want to be beautiful, you must be thin, and if you want to be thin, you must eat extremely." (Even the less you eat, the better)"
In the 1970s, the United States, which was experiencing the "fall of the Vietnam War" and the "stagflation crisis", the young people's minds became open and diverse, the pursuit of sexy slimness seemed to become a compulsory course for women, and weight loss became popular for a while, including unhealthy ways such as dieting and weight loss.
This trend affects everyone, including Karen of course.
Karen's older brother, Richard, another core member of carpenter' band, once said, "Karen drank 8 glasses of water a day in addition to dieting, which seemed to be the health trend of the time." ”
Young Americans in the 1970s
After 1975, Carpenter's consistent Pop-Rock route seemed to become less fashionable, and their new songs were no longer as much touted as before.
The obstruction of her career, the disappearance of youth, and the unhappiness of her personal married life have all given Karen too much psychological pressure, and her anorexia has become more and more serious, and her health has deteriorated. Carpenters are also showing signs of imminent disbanding.
Karen didn't give up, she actively received therapy, and in 1981, along with her brother, released a new album, Made in America, one of their best albums.
Just when people thought that Carpenter was about to return to its former glory, tragedy struck, and anorexism became more and more severe, and finally on February 4, 1983, Karen was taken away.
The tragedy of Karen, at its root, is caused by the wrong concept of weight loss. But in the United States at that time, many people did not think that there was anything wrong with dieting and losing weight.
So, will today's Americans still diet and lose weight?
<h1>3 Wrong view of weight loss, not "only yesterday"</h1>
The fitness and weight loss wave in the United States emerged in the 1970s, so now, what is the concept of american weight loss? (We're only talking about ordinary city dwellers who need to lose weight, and as for the many fat guys in the slums, they don't seem to care too much about being fat and skinny.) ）
The captain asked several friends in the United States, including several cadets, some of whom were students or some of whom were white-collar workers.
The answer seems to be this:
"At home, everyone is beautiful because of thinness, but this is not the case in the United States."
"Everyone here who thinks they're thin is busy gaining weight."
"What we call healthy meals is just a daily routine here."
"Domestic weight loss products are now particularly popular, and there seems to be no eh here."
"The gyms here are generally big."
A local gym photographed by trainees in the United States
After decades of tossing, although there are still many fat people in the United States, most people have a more objective understanding of weight loss, knowing that healthy weight loss requires a scientific diet and reasonable exercise.
Speaking of this, I think of the rising weight loss trend in China today.
In recent years, the living standards of The Chinese people have risen rapidly, and the pursuit of beauty has become more and more intense, but there is a lack of basic understanding of many health knowledge, which is similar to the 70s in the United States.
Moreover, the development of social media today has made misconceptions spread faster and more widely.
Countless people in the circle of friends to post their diet days, packaged as a "star weight loss program" of the extreme diet method has been spread, merchants with different gimmicks to sell "low calorie meal replacement" and diet is no different from the diet of the weight loss program, a variety of extreme weight loss methods with strange terms ...
Of course, many people do use these methods to achieve the purpose of temporary weight loss, just like 17-year-old Karen has also lost a lot of weight, but they do not know that these methods learned without examination are likely to lay huge hidden dangers to health.
I don't know why, we are now very trusting of a person, but it is very easy to believe some one-sided views. It is precisely because of this that the concept of weight loss that caused the tragedy of Karen Carpenter is still popular in china today.
Therefore, the captain sincerely advises everyone:
When you see a new weight loss method, your first reaction, not to see others have the so-called effect, blindly follow suit, must be carefully examined, do not limit to Baidu, to check the information, to ask professional people, to ensure that there is no problem, you then try. Especially those ways that seriously violate the laws of daily life, we must not easily believe it.
Healthy things, not jokes.
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